From Peru: Fitzcarraldo (1982)

           
Brian Fitzgerald Sweene, better known under the name of Fitzcarraldo, dream of building the largest opera house in the world in Iquitos, in the heart of the Amazon To earn money for his project, he bought a rubber concession along the Uycali river deemed inaccessible due to violent rapids.To achieve its concession Fitzcarraldo chooses to descend Pachitea river, separated from the Uycali only by a mountain.

His attempt ultimately failed and Fitzcarraldo transforms the theater ship welcoming singers and musicians for a unique spectacle in the heart of the Amazon rainforest.

Brazilian: The House of Sand

In the film, the time passes come from heaven. When the caravan led by Vasco de Sá (Ruy Guerra) arrives in the middle of nowhere and stops, his wife Aurea (Torres) not delay to want to go back to town and take his mother along, Maria (Montenegro). There also is slow to the dunes become even more desert and Golden, pregnant, have only the mother and future daughter for company. In the wanderings through the region are Massu (Seu Jorge) and a village that was once a quilombo. The new neighbors will help them in the task of surviving in the middle of the sand. With the exception of merchant Chico (Emiliano Queiroz), the next contact with civilization will happen only nine years later, when Golden is an expedition of British scientists was in northeastern Brazil to photograph the sky and thus help prove the theory of relativity Einstein. This meeting is reborn desire to leave. Looking up, we see after aircraft, bringing news of what happened not only with the lives of Maria, Aurea and Maria, but also in the world, which was in the midst of World War II. The third major event, perhaps the most beautiful, has as a reference point the arrival of man on the moon.
                          
As monochrome as the natural satellite is the scenario, as well as reminds Golden, "which is not sand is heaven." But this absence of other colors does not hurt. In fact, if it were different probably would not work. The same can be said of almost complete absence of music. What is heard more noises are. Even the dialogues are economical, leaving the more visual history. And it works well!

In times when romantic comedies starring global players and "actresses" beer advertising come to the mountains, good to see more elaborate films. Do not get me wrong. Each has its value in the much-talked resumption of Brazilian cinema. One calls the populace to cinemas and amuses. The other takes advantage of this blockbuster to raise funds for the environment and develop denser projects. It helps a lot also have talent and Andruchas Fernandas. The mother, in fact, should be able to carry out such travel at the speed of light commented in the film because exudes a unique playfulness on the big screen.

Arroz amargo 1949..nice and old

The film starts at the beginning of the season rice planted in northern Italy. Francesca (Doris Dowling) and Walter (Vittorio Gassman) are a young couple who have just thieves steal a valuable necklace in a hotel where she worked as a waitress. To escape the police, Walter trust necklace Francesca and both try to go unnoticed in a crowd of laborers (the mondine) to board a train to the rice fields of the Po valley . While waiting to board the train, the couple met Silvana (Silvana Mangano), a young and sensual mondina, Walter flirts with which to hide from the police, despite which is recognized and flees. Francesca and Silvana together make the trip to the rice fields.

Silvana, intrigued by Francesca, help you get a job as "clandestine" mondina (no contract). After initial resistance of contract workers, the "underground" are finally admitted to planting. Francesca is thus introduced in the grueling lifestyle of temporary rice.

Silvana soon discovers the necklace stolen by Francesca and it withdraws him in the bedroom. Then accused of strikebreaking , to out of the way.

Francesca danger of being lynched by their peers, but is saved by a sergeant about to be licensed after his service in the army, Marco Galli ( Raf Vallone ), which pacifies the two sides. Francesca gets grouped with other irregular partners and eventually convinces all laborers to perform a common protest with the aim that all mondine are legally employed.

Silvana Francesca apologizes and returns the necklace, confessing to have acted tired and asequeada of the hard life of a day laborer. Upon returning the booty assists Marco, who is in love with Silvana, while Francesca is far from it.

On arrival at the estate of Walter, who had been hiding waiting for things to calm down, wreak havoc during an evening party. Silvana returns to "borrow" the necklace to Francesca and dances with Walter between laborers and laborers. Also go to the party Marco, who upon seeing Silvana necklace mounted with anger, rips neck collar and fistfight with Walter.

Francesca Walter then reveals that the stolen necklace is just imitation and leaves, while, to woo Silvana, offers the same necklace as a gift, hiding her the truth. Dazzled by the prospect of life that offers Walter, Silvana becomes her lover. But Walter movement is not disinterested: is actually in league with three accomplices to steal the rice harvest and Silvana has seduced to have your help. So when will be crowned "Miss Mondina 1948", Silvana opens the floodgates of channels and flood the rice field. Thus, while all rtrabajadores strive to save the crops, Walter can get away with arrroz and harvested.

But Francesca guessed Walter plans and, thinking that the robbery rice would mean ruin for mondine and that's quite another to steal from the rich, warns Marco, thinking it's the only one who can help her. Marco and Francesca are faced with Walter and Silvana; the two men hurt each other and the outcome is in the hands of women, each armed with a gun. After mouth Francesca know that Walter has cheated and has used it for their own purposes, Silvana pointing the gun at him and shoot. But that will not be enough to redeem his own eyes the betrayal of his comrades, looking for an illusory individual salvation; Instead redemption that has managed to find Francesca class solidarity. Thus, Silvana, in shock, commits suicide and mondine pay homage, covering her body handfuls of rice; while, Francesca and Marco march together in search of a better future.

Folle d'elle 1998 nice movie

Returning from a story abroad, Mark, a young photographer, finds his girlfriend in the arms of her roommate. Abandoned by his editor who tells him stories without interest, he finds refuge with Victor and Alex, a couple of gay friends. For its part, Lisa, Alex's best friend is getting a divorce from a husband who deceives and suffers from loneliness. She would share her home with "someone like Alex." Exasperated by fads Marc Victor and Alex are going to pass it to Lisa Gay accepts it as roommate.

Serena Grandi...Teresa...1987

                   
Romagna, eighties. Teresa, a beautiful, busty and strong-willed, is widowed. To exercise in its own activities trucker aboard a Scania 142, is forced to settle a debt of 80 million pounds, that her husband, before dying, had contracted with Nabucco, a wealthy local businessman. The latter, in love with her, the intimate that if by August of the following year will not be able to pay off the debt, will have to marry him. Teresa, who does not return this feeling, he started working very hard (with mixed success), personally carrying goods from Germany to Sicily, and trying to mislead the court of suitors that meets from time to time (among others: an unlikely German baron and a caricaturist boss of the Sicilian Mafia).

In this series of scrimmage finds time to fall in love with the young Gino, his second driver, Romagnolo true as she and difficult character to drive Iveco Turbostar. This is a comedy in which Dino Risi is expressed in a minor key, with an obvious (but not always successful) tribute to the Emilia-Romagna region and its inhabitants. The soundtrack includes songs by Lucio Dalla and Casadei.

Blood...2004 Drama

             
After not having seen each other in five years, Chris Terry goes to visit his younger sister Noelle Terry in Montréal. Their lives, both together and apart, have been turbulent ones with something toxic having affected the way they interact with each other. Chris, who has just divorced his wife Denise, is a recovering alcoholic. Although he has never served time, he has committed crimes in his past. Noelle, a drug addict, turns tricks to make ends meet. She has just completed a stint in prison. Upon Chris' arrival, Noelle proposes to Chris that they enter into a three-way with a john who will pay $500 for the trick. Noelle had been trying to find another man to do the job, but was unable to find one on such short notice.

Noelle implies that she needs the money to pay off a third party, and she figures Chris owes her. Despite not identifying himself as being gay or even bisexual despite having previously had a relationship with a man, Chris agrees. As Chris and Noelle's encounter progresses, what they displayed on the surface in entering into this agreement may not be their true motivation - or the motivation for Chris making this visit after all this time - as they talk about money, drugs, power and control, and Noelle's ex-boyfriend Martin.

1982 Paradise..not bad

                 

In the Georgian era, in 1823, David (Aames) and sarah (Cates), 2 teenagers, travel with a caravan from Bagdad to damascus. At associate oasis, the fancy woman agent 'Jackal' raids them, principally to feature the gorgeous young sarah to his hareem. David and sarah and her servant, Geoffrey, narrowly escape, however all the others are slain within the massacre together with David's american missionary parents. However, Geoffrey does not survive long, as he sees an encampment that, unbeknownst to him, is travel by the jackal. Geoffrey goes to the encampment seeking facilitate however is killed by the jackal because the remaining duo takes a rest in a very near  district on their westerly direction toward civilization.

Sarah and David's flight leads them to a fine looking oasis—their peaceful place in paradise—where they discover natural love and their physiological property. However, the jackal has not given au courant sarah yet, and David should lure him to his death, or be killed by him.
In the film's ending, David confronts the jackal and is in a position to kill him. sarah reveals to David that she is pregnant and therefore the 2 young lovers have finally reached civilization, town of damascus.

Comedy of 1982: Vai avanti tu che mi viene da ridere

         
Commissioner Pasquale Bellachioma is a willing policeman who with trust Cavicchioli looking to stand for commitment and dedication to service, but because of his clumsiness no one guesses. One day his ex-wife, remarried to a musician named Gianni, before leaving for his second honeymoon entrusts his St. Bernard dog and their teenage son.

But the worst is yet to come: in fact, the agent receives the news that he was transferred to San Vito Alto, a town in the province of Trento , described dall'appuntato on duty as a sort of outpost Siberian (his predecessor died of pneumonia in August while there were 20 degrees below zero, maximum). The village is also described as "the last police station before the border." The transfer must be made ​​in a day, but Fairhair learns that the next day will be in Rome the sheik Abadjan, which has already suffered numerous attacks for its stated intention to sell oil at rates different from those of the other producing countries.

The only survivor of the attacks is the transvestite Andrea  . Commissioner delaying the start with an apology and decides to investigate the case privately. It is the first to find Andrea, the stops and then protects it, to escape the killer of the oil tycoon, who is also on his trail. Being together with him if they become attached, but will not admit it. Andrea notices it and reveals that it is not a man, but a woman in all respects: it is a disguised fake just to escape the killer. His real name is Andrea and Maria Richter was born in Lugano , in Switzerland .

The tanker arrived in Rome protected by a huge security service, but the murderess still managed to get to Villa Borghese , where you hold the reception in his honor. Bellachioma, with a fortuitous but timely intervention, manages to save his life. Consequently, the transfer is canceled and the Commissioner is rewarded with a medal: now can finally live with his beloved, even if the last scene the doubt on her sex remains.

Nice of 1974: Vincent, François, Paul... et les autres

Longtime friends, Vincent, François, Paul - entrepreneur respectively doctor and writer - all fifty, meet regularly with others, including a young boxer Jean, to drink, eat, or for spending purposes week to discuss the campaign together. They cross all more or less bad sentimental or professional pass. Vincent, for example, who was one of the strongest of them, hardly limping along since his wife Catherine left him; He also faces financial difficulties in its business.

And it is precisely as a result of a heart problem experienced by Vincent suddenly all around him will gradually become aware of the relativity of their personal problems.Vincent, François, Paul ... and the other is a film Franco - Italian directed by Claude Sautet , released in 1974 .

Edwige Fenech : Il ficcanaso 1981

A film by Bruno Corbucci ,with Edwige Fenech , Pino Caruso , Pippo Franco , Laura Troschel , Sergio Leonardi. Modesto yellow-comic with little rhythm, little to find. P. Franco (also co-wrote the screenplay) seems abandoned to itself (and it should not) in a "just" very questionable taste.As a plot we can say Luciano Persichetti is haunted by a mysterious killer who calls himself "The Guardian Angel", to whom is able to escape through some precognitive abilities. At the end of the identity of the killer will be revealed, with extreme surprise of the protagonist.

Cast:
Pippo Franco: Luciano Persichetti
Edwige Fenech: Susanna Luisetti
Pino Caruso: Inspector
Laura Troschel: Carla Foscari
Luc Merenda: Paolo
Sergio Leonardi: Lino

Crossed Swords aka The Prince and the Pauper 1977..nice

Period journey custom-made from Mark Twain's classic novel, starring Mark Lester, oliver Reed and Raquel Welch. once prince edward comes face to face together with his actual double, street urchin Tom canty, he thinks it might be a beautiful joke to vary places with him for the night. sadly for Edward, his disguise works too well and he's in remission and thrown out on to the treacherous and corrupt streets of London.

Film Details
Directed by Richard Fleischer
Produced in 1977
Main Language - English
Countries & Regions - British Film

Erotic: Dancing at the Blue Iguana 2000

 Angel (Daryl Hannah) needs for a baby of her own or a foster kid to require care of, however her untidy, dysfunctional existence makes this an not possible dream. Jo (Jennifer Tilly) is pregnant, however desires an abortion, and may barely contain her rage at the planet. jasmine (Sandra Oh) writes lovely poetry on the facet and eventually finds a boyfriend. She tells him she's a stripper, however he maintains that he's o.k. with it. However, once he sees her dance at the club, he disapproves mutely and leaves.

Jesse (Charlotte Ayanna), the youngest and newest stripper appearance for acceptance and love among the strippers and customers, however is eventually crushed by her boyfriend, leading her to drink and depression; and Stormy (Sheila Kelley) has an incestuous relationship together with her brother.
In 2001, actress Daryl Hannah released a one-hour companion documentary, Strip Notes, supported her experience researching her role as a stripper within the film, that is enclosed as an additional on the dancing at the Blue iguana dvd. Hannah conjointly stars along side Charlotte Ayanna, Elias Koteas, Jennifer Tilly, and Sandra oh.

Edwige Fenech : in La signora gioca bene a scopa?

A poker player on a streak meets a good looking missy. he is interested in her, however she seems to be absolutely content together with her boyfriend, a somewhat wussy author. The gambler gets the concept that if he will get this girl into bed, it'll amendment his luck at the gambling tables.

Cast

• Edwige Fenech:Eva
• Carlo Giuffré:Michele Cammagliulo
• Carlo Delle Piane:Tonino
• Oreste Lionello:Alberto
• Enzo Cannavale:Peppino
• Franca Valeri:Giulia Nascimbeni
• Didi Perego:Monica
• Gigi Ballista:Gervasio Caminata
• Lia Tanzi:Marisa
• Enzo Andronico:The Doctor

Cuban film: Red Cockroaches 2003

                    
A low budget movie of 2000$ come the plot of a young man meets a mysterious girl in the subway and gets romantically involved with her, only to later discover that she might be his long lost sister. Dark and atmospheric, the world the characters inhabit is an alternative New York City with bouts of Acid Rain and ruled by an omnipotent cloning company called DNA21. Cryptic in nature and merging several genres, mainly sci-fi and drama with sporadic dark humor and surrealist touches,

Red Cockroaches’ morally ambiguous incest story has gathered as many fans as detractors making it a modern underground cult movie.

Nice One: The April Fools 1969

Howard Brubaker (Lemmon) is married to Phyllis (Sally Kellerman), WHO does not love him. Catherine (Deneuve) is that the gorgeous married woman of an equally uncaring husband, Howard's philandering boss ted Gunther (Peter Lawford).

At a party hosted by ted, he urges Howard to choose up an out there girl at the party and income to point out him how. Howard reluctantly tries it on Catherine, WHO instantly accepts.
The two realize their marriages are loveless as they discover additional concerning one another that night and choose to run away along. however Howard does not realise Catherine is his boss's wife till he's near to board the plane along with her to Paris.

Comedy: Vieni Avanti Cretino 1982

Lino Banfi holds a monologue in a dressing room located in a bathroom , surrounded by more luxurious for some stars of Hollywood mentioned at the beginning ( John Travolta , Bo Derek and Marlon Brando ), but they do not show up.

Rome, early eighties. Pasquale Baudaffi is a prisoner fresh out of jail Roman of Regina Coeli ; to welcome him find his cousin Gaetano, who tries on several occasions to help him to a path of honest reintegration into society; He will offer a variety of work activities as employed by an employment agency and therefore aware of the work with immediate use.

Franco Bracardi (Gaetano) in a frame of film.
From this premise depart a series of scenes; First there is the visit to a newly established dental practice, but Easter still believed to be the brothel that was before, he attended before he was arrested. The scene is full of double meanings between the protagonist, the assistant to the dentist and an engineer with serious dental problems, played by Gigi Reder .
Will be followed by an interview for the post of warden city, which obviously will not be able to spend Easter. The next attempt is as mechanic; as a favor to the owner, a heart condition, Baudaffi agree to stay in his place for a night, convinced by a tempting dinner prepared by the owner's wife.

End up stealing the collective of all cars of the garage as revenge for a group of brothers from Sicily, confident that their only sister "libertine" is over at that garage hidden in some cars. During a test as a waiter, two lovers undecided and marriage crisis will lead to exasperation poor Pasquale, also harassed by the rough ways of the owner of the bar, Mr. Gargiulo.

After this experience bankruptcy cousin Gaetano does it take as a clerk at the job, but here is a director very Catholic and very tolerant towards homosexuals, which ends just to believe gay (after having caught accidently look into a men's room), and then fire him. Later, in lieu of a famous tenor , singer pretends to be a Spanish improvised at a party, where serenade mixing Apulian dialect and pidgin Spanish. Filed this other experience, is hired in a company of electronics, but here you will find a schizophrenic director, Dr. Thomas, and repetitive tasks and alienating.

Now resigned to take the life of a homeless man, Pasquale notice in a newspaper ad for a lost dog, Nero, who eventually found. The discovery gives hope to Baudaffi a large cash reward, but the man get in return only a rough sex with a fat lady aristocratic owner of the dog. The film ends with the intervention of the same Luciano Salce , judging the interpretation of Banfi: the actor is sentenced to be shot by a firing squad, which turns out to be armed with cream cakes.

An occasional hell ...nice 1996

This cockeyed thriller stars Tom Berenger (Platoon) as Ernie Dewalt, a drug-addicted ex-cop with a tubing, which is not the worst of it. Ernie teaches inventive writing at atiny low school wherever distinguished academician Alex laughton (Stephen Lang) has been blown apart with a piece whereas uncertain  the ofttimes nude Jeri Kari Wuhrer during a automotive on Lover's Lane. Laughton's widow, Elizabeth (Valeria Golino) drags the reluctant Ernie out of retirement to clear her name, as she is that the prime suspect.

Once he isn't mainlining medicine or commerce japes with investigation detective robert Davi, Ernie is haunted by visions of Jeri, taunting him regarding his incompetence. it isn't very Jeri, of course, and should even be the spirit of his former alcoholism, however the plot is therefore confused that it's arduous to inform. Ernie contains a vision of himself snapping nude photos of Jeri and laughton having sex during a field; Elizabeth is loudly unvoiced  regarding within the native supermarket; and therefore the ridiculous resolution can please nobody. dangerous film buffs ought to get a kick out of Ernie weeping to Elizabeth regarding his tubing, however alternative viewers ought to avoid this jaw-dropping stupidity in the least prices.

Top 1969: L'armée des ombres

The film was released in the political context of the post- May 68 . Paying tribute to the Resistance and General de Gaulle , he was sometimes a negative criticism, especially from the Cahiers du Cinema , which then were beginning a shift to a more political discourse.

These bad reviews echoes dissuaded American programmers to distribute the film in the United States . He finally came out in 2006 and was a late release this cinematic event unanimously applauded by the specialized critics . It has even been rated as the best film of the year by critics of the magazine American Premiere of Newsweek , the LA Weekly and the New York Times . He received the award for Best Foreign Language Film at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards 2006, and Best Film at the 2006 First Annual LA Weekly Film Critics Poll , . On the website Rotten Tomatoes , the film collects 97% positive reviews with an average score of 8.6 / 10 based on 73 reviews collected and, on the website Metacritic , it gets a score of 99 / 100, based on 24 reviews .

Upon its release in theaters in September 1969 , Army of Shadows is experiencing a modest beginning with 29 200 entries in three rooms of Paris , for an average of 9733 entries per room, but manages to remain in the top ten entries in several weeks . Remained fifteen weeks playing in Paris, it totals 455,134 entries in the capital and its suburbs . By province, the film combines 946,688 entries to 1,401,822 entries total during its initial release .

Vitaly : Pierino Colpisce Ancora

In an attempt to pass the examination of primary school , Peter gets to dictate the theme (a trace of Giuseppe Garibaldi ) from his grandfather through the radio link. The signal is, however, disturbed by a communication from the police , causing Peter to write and deliver to the Committee a theme that mixes the life of Garibaldi to that of a wanted for drug dealing. The disastrous outcome of the subsequent oral examination will mark yet another rejection of Peter, who is accompanied by his father to Grosseto where he is enrolled in a college .

Despite the poor results of the placement test, Peter was admitted in the institute where he will meet some old friends (the alternate Rizzi, who tries in vain to declare their feelings) and will have to deal with some people like Henrietta (daughter of director of the institute), who will try in vain to covet the boy and Oronzo, a "nerd" who will challenge for a meeting of boxing . After a first failed attempt, Peter manages to evade the keeper Francesco fleeing the institution: he tries to return to Rome by hitchhiking is loaded on to a steering wheel of the Police and taken home by his father, getting a bad reception from part of the neighborhood. Soon Peter begins to turn for the city, making jokes to anyone (including a policeman ), the father, in order to hide an extra-marital affair with the maid, he decides to send his son to work as a clerk in some shops. Again, the work experience of Peter will prove completely disastrous.

Fantastic movie: Bye Bye Brasil 1979

This fantastic movie tells the history of a small caravan of artists. They cross an immense area inside Brazil as a circus act for simple and poor people. They find a couple of beggars that escaped the drought of the northeast in the road. These beggars are headed to the wealth and success in the new "Eldorado Brasileiro": the Amazonian. This film holds human and yet controversial content, that faces the problematic themes of Brazilian reality: the social poverty, migration and environmental destruction.

Bye Bye Brasil was listed as one of the top 10 Brazilian films by Glauco Ortolano of World Literature Today. The New York Times noted that it was “a most reflective film, nicely acted by its small cast and beautifully though not artily photographed in some remarkable locations.” The film has been described as a kind of "Seismological documentary … registers the cultural aftershocks of the Brazilian Subcontinent." The film was nomiated for the Palme d'Or at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival. The film was also selected as the Brazilian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 53rd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.